The group photo of MJLA and National Judiciary staff which include the MJLAHQ, five legal agencies (AGC, ODPP, PSO, LRC & RGO) and the staff from high-court and magistrate court who attend the MJLA 100 days working workshop at Iron Bottom Sound Hotel.
The Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs (MJLA) and its Agencies have completed their schedule for collaboration towards the first GNUT 100 days’ priorities, particularly for the Justice Sector. This was possible from a 1 day consultation for all its agencies, the National Judiciary and MJLA Headquarter staff held at the IBS, 23 June 2024.
The theme of the consultation is “Our answers are in our Questions”.
In his opening remarks, the Permanent Secretary for MJLA, Mr. George Hoa’au thanked the heads of Agencies, Senior Counsels and representatives; and stressed that “we must be resourceful and efficiently smart with the resources given to us; purposely to ensure that we measure what matters in the next 100 days. At the same time to measure and support the core mandated matters of the Agencies in the delivery of legal services to the public.”
Mr. George Hoa’au, the permanent secretary of Ministry of Justice & Legal Affairs makes a brief explanation on the eight priorities of his ministry that should be executed in the first 100 days of the GNUT government.
He further expounded on the theme of the workshop that “it is better to have questions we don’t have answers to, than accept answers we never question.”
While the completed schedule provided an action plan, with specific allocated tasks, and Working groups with targeted outputs and timelines until 23 Sept 2024; it also outlines broad deliverables that included the MJLA Corporate Plan (Aug 2024) and budgetary preparations and projections (Sept 2024). The overall oversight for the scheduled action plan’s deliverables will be the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Hoa’au.
Mr George Hoa’au (PS) explained to the senior staff from the justice sector the importance of implementing these eight priorities of the GNUT government purposely to ensure that justice services were accessible to all Solomon Islands citizens.
The completed implementation schedule for GNUT 100 days’ priorities is a precursor to the Justice Sector Strategic Framework, 2024 – 2034 workshop, which will be held on 27th – 28th June 2024 at IBS. This framework marks the first time for the Justice Sector to have a 10 year plan; and an implementing framework that provides for 6 months working reviews.
MJLA acknowledges the support of the Australia – Solomon Islands partnership for Justice Programme for funding these important consultations.
MJLA PRESS